Nayden Todorov
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 Pianist, composer, and conductor
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Nayden Todorov (born 1974) is a Bulgarian pianist, composer, and conductor.
[edit] Life
Todorov was born in 1974 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He received his first piano lessons at the age of five, and by the age of sixteen he had led his first concert as a conductor. He studied with Alexander Vladigerov in Sofia and later with Karl Osterreicher in Vienna. In 1993 he graduated summa cum laude from the Dobrin Petkov Music High-School in Plovdiv, specializing in trumpet, piano, conducting and composing. In the same year he began his conducting studies under professor Uros Lajovic at the Music University in Vienna. He completed the first part of his studies in 1996 and went to Jerusalem, where he continued his musical education, specializing in conducting with Mendi Rodan, Music Director of the Israel Symphony Orchestra and professor at the Rubin Academy of Music. In 2001 Nayden Todorov graduated also summa cum laude from the New Bulgarian University in Sofia. From 1995 to 1997 Nayden Todorov was the recipient of scholarships from the international foundation St. Kyrill and Metody and from the Vienna chapter of Rotary International, and from 1996 until 1998 from the Georg Wachter Foundation in Switzerland. He won prizes at the Svetoslav Obretenov national competition, the competition for Czech music, as well as the Special Prize of the Slovakian music funds, the Borghese Foundation Prize, the Zdravko Manolov Prize, the Sofia Prize for the production of the opera Faust by Gounod with the Sofia National Opera and others in Europe and the USA.
He has already conducted various orchestras in Europe, Asia and America. While still a student, he created the Plovdiv Youth Orchestra with which he toured extensively in Germany, Austria and other countries. From 1995 to 1997 he was the conductor of the Vratsa Philharmonic Orchestra; from 1997 to 1999 of the Sofia Festival Orchestra; and in the 1998/99 season, he was selected from an international competition of 150 conductors to become Resident Conductor of the Israel Northern Symphony Orchestra in Haifa. He also served as Principal conductor of the Vidin Philharmonic Orchestra and Music Director and Chief conductor of the Plovdiv State Opera and Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra. Since year 2000 he had been a permanent guest conductor of Sofia National Opera. Since season 2003/2004 Nayden Todorov is a principal guest conductor of Sofia National Philharmonic and since 2005 he has been General Music Director of Rousse State Philharmonic and Opera.
Maestro Todorov has recorded over one hundred compact discs for Naxos, RENT Music, MMO, Danacord, Balkanton, Israel Music Institute and Hungaroton and has also created several music productions for various radio and TV stations. In addition he is the Music Director of the much-lauded Thracia Summer International Music Festival.
